U.S. Marine Corps RQ-21A Blackjack UAV
A new unmanned aircraft with a 16-foot wingspan that has taken to the skies over Marine Corps Base Hawaii performs a neat trick: It “lands” by catching a wingtip on a vertical guy wire, eliminating the need for a runway.
That’s important as the Marine Corps — and the rest of the service branches — focus on dispersing forces across the Indo-Pacific to sometimes austere locations to make them less vulnerable to Chinese and Russian missiles.
The RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial system was launched for the first time from Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay on Monday.
Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 — which used to fly the bigger RQ-7B Shadow — is in the process of receiving four Blackjack systems with five aircraft each, the Corps said.
Courtesy U.S. Marine Corps
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